Posted: Apr 27, 2018

CCC Women's Track and Field: Championships

Freshmen Francesca Moore and Sydney DeCesare lead a pack of distance runners. (Photo by Jen McGuinness)

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Six Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) women's track and field teams will compete for the first-ever CCC Women's Track and Field Championship on Saturday, April 28, at Portsmouth High School in Portsmouth, R.I. Field events are scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. with track events set to go off around 11:30 a.m.

Student-athletes from Eastern Nazarene College, Endicott College, Gordon College, Nichols College, Roger Williams, and Salve Regina will compete for a chance at claiming the inaugural title. This is the first championship year for women's track and field after a long-standing tradition of invitational events. The decision to elevate the sport to championship status came with the addition of the Endicott varsity program, giving the CCC six schools participating in varsity competition.

The championship will feature the following 19 scoring events:

Pole Vault
High Jump
Long Jump
Triple Jump
Hammer Throw
Discus
Javelin Throw
Shotput
5000 meter run
4x100 meter relay

1500 meter run
100 meter hurdles
400 meter run
100 meter dash
800 meter run
400 meter hurdles
200 meter run
3000 meter run
4x 400 meter relay

The team with the most points accumulated will be crowned the CCC Women's Track and Field Champion.

In addition to the women's championship event, the men will continue to compete in an invitational format as only four CCC schools sponsor men's track and field: Eastern Nazarene, Gordon, Nichols, Roger Williams.

This is one of the few remaining chances that student-athletes have to qualify of the 2018 NCAA Division III Men's and Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championship, which will be held from May 24-26 hosted by University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.